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Anonymous wrote:How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

Different PP, but I am 5'6" 140lbs and also maintain at 2500. I work out daily and get 12-15k steps a day though.

Yep, op here. Similar stats, bit shorter and weigh a bit less. I walk like nuts most days. Even when I think I am being a total pig with eating, after a few days when I step on a scale I am still around 118lbs.

5'7 and 135, and maintain at 2000. I walk or run every day for about an hour and do a barre or yoga video most mornings. If I go wild with food on vacation or holidays I gain about 5 pounds but I suspect it is mostly water weight because it goes away within a week of normal habits without much effort.

5'6, 120 lbs, 46yo. I jog slowly for 30 minutes 5-6 days per week. When I don't care about gaining weight I do not restrict my sugar intake. When I cut out cookies, ice cream, pastries, and cake I drop 5 lbs effortlessly. In the past when I increased the duration and intensity of my workouts, I could not keep my weight down. The diet industry would vanish overnight if most of us could accept the painful truth that we need very little in the way of calories to thrive.

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Anonymous wrote:I eat 1200 calories or less in order to lose. No amount of cardio seems to help me lose weight, although I do it for the health benefits. I lift heavy weights for the same reason.

You should eat more, your body is messed up with so few calories. How much do you weight?

I have tried eating more, that’s how I got to 160 pounds at 5’6. I was eating a ton of protein trying out the advice to balance macros, but all it did was make me gain and look like an apple.

I think everyone has a different body chemistry, mine only responds to calorie restriction at this point in my life (40 years old with three kids). It’s actually quite a bit of food, I eat a ton of veggies!

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Anonymous wrote:How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

Different PP, but I am 5'6" 140lbs and also maintain at 2500. I work out daily and get 12-15k steps a day though.

Yep, op here. Similar stats, bit shorter and weigh a bit less. I walk like nuts most days. Even when I think I am being a total pig with eating, after a few days when I step on a scale I am still around 118lbs.

Yep, walking helps a lot. People generally underestimate how important walking and general activity is for total calorie burn and overestimate the importance of formal exercise. For somebody who drives everywhere adding a few workouts a week will do much less for total energy expenditure than dropping the car-dependent life style and walking everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

Different PP, but I am 5'6" 140lbs and also maintain at 2500. I work out daily and get 12-15k steps a day though.

Yep, op here. Similar stats, bit shorter and weigh a bit less. I walk like nuts most days. Even when I think I am being a total pig with eating, after a few days when I step on a scale I am still around 118lbs.

Anonymous wrote:How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

I am 5'4" or a bit over. I used to be 107 lbs but for a few years now I am around 118 lbs. I am 50 years old. I might not eat that many calories every single day, but most days. I walk a ton for my work.

Anonymous wrote:How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

Different PP, but I am 5'6" 140lbs and also maintain at 2500. I work out daily and get 12-15k steps a day though.

Anonymous wrote:I eat 1200 calories or less in order to lose. No amount of cardio seems to help me lose weight, although I do it for the health benefits. I lift heavy weights for the same reason.

You should eat more, your body is messed up with so few calories. How much do you weight?

How tall are you and what do you weigh to maintain on 2500? I’m 5’8 and never in my life could I have eaten that much to be a healthy weight. Maybe because I was obese as a child.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/well/move/weight-loss-exercise-calories.html


I try to do some cardio every single day, but I don’t always. On the days when I do cardio in the morning, I’m hungrier at dinner. Because my body burned a bunch of calories so it needs more for homeostasis.

I am not trying to lose weight. Last time I checked my BMI was 21, I think.

Maybe those studies are all wrong but im not citing them out of laziness.

Copy and paste? I am not subscribing and I do not want to clear all my history.

I eat 1200 calories or less in order to lose. No amount of cardio seems to help me lose weight, although I do it for the health benefits. I lift heavy weights for the same reason.

🙄🙄🙄🙄

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/well/move/weight-loss-exercise-calories.html


I try to do some cardio every single day, but I don’t always. On the days when I do cardio in the morning, I’m hungrier at dinner. Because my body burned a bunch of calories so it needs more for homeostasis.

I am not trying to lose weight. Last time I checked my BMI was 21, I think.

Maybe those studies are all wrong but im not citing them out of laziness.

I think exercise matters for maintaining weight, but it's hard to lose weight with exercise.

That's what I take statements like, "You can't outrun the fork," to mean.

Of course it matters, just not as much as some people would like to believe.

I mean, sure if you are eating 10000 calories per day, you can exercise all you want and it won't make a different unless you are Phelps or some run all day battery bunny. For most people exercise does make all the difference in our weight maintenance. If I eat 3000 calories and work out to burn 500 I can maintain my weight and never ever get overweight.
I call it being lazy, this denial that exercise does matter. Cardio burns calories, working out and lifting burns calories and build muscles, so quite frankly I am going with you are lazy and this is just a convenient excuse. And it is not even remotely true.